Ethnographies of Deservingness

Jelena Tošić is Assistant Professor of Transcultural Studies at the University of St. Gallen and lecturer at the University of Vienna. Her current writings focus on borderlands in Southeast Europe, forced migration, citizenship and moralisations of inequality.

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Deservingness: Reassessing the Moral Dimensions of Inequality

Andreas Streinzer and Jelena Tošić



Part I: Deservingness – Genealogies, Struggles and Ideologies



Chapter 1. Caring for the Old and Letting Them Die: A Political Economy of Human Worth

Susana Narotzky



Chapter 2. Must the Tired and Poor ´Stand on Their Own Two Feet`? Tools for Analyzing How Migrants’ Deservingness is Reckoned

Sarah S. Willen and Jennifer Cook



Chapter 3. Deserving Classes without Class: Explaining the Neo-Nationalist Ascendency

Don Kalb



Chapter 4. A Methodological, Reflexive and Comparative Approach to Deservingness

Erik Bähre



Part II: Categories, Policies and Negotiations of Deservingness



Chapter 5. Hartz IV. Affective and Sensual Registers of Moral Inferiority

Stefan Wellgraf



Chapter 6. Unemployment, Deservingness and Ideological Apparatuses: A Case Study from Turin, Italy

Carlo Capello



Chapter 7. The Politics of Austerity Welfare: Charity, Discourses of Deservingness and Human Needs in a Portuguese Church Parish

Patricia Matos



Chapter 8. ‘Here, Morality is a Sense of Entitlement’: Citizenship, Deservingness, and Inequality in Suburban America

Elisa Lanari



Part III: The (Un)Deserving Migrant/Refugee



Chapter 9. Ambivalences of (Un)Deservingness: Tracing Vulnerability in the EU Border Regime

Sabine Strasser



Chapter 10. The Politics of Deservingness among Resettled Bhutanese Refugees

Nicole Hoellerer



Chapter 11. Suffering and Vulnerability Reconfigured. Refugee Images of Hungarian Migrants Working in Refugee Accommodation Institutions in Germany

Ildikó Zakariás and Margit Feischmidt



Part IV: Debt Relations – State, Market Actors and Debtors



Chapter 12. Do Mortgagors in Hardship Deserve Debt Relief? Legitimizing and Challenging Inequality during the Spanish Home Repossessions Crisis

Irene Sabaté



Chapter 13. Households on Trial: Over-Indebtedness, State and Moral Struggles in Greece

Theodora Vetta



Chapter 14. Victims, Patriots and Middle Class: The (Un)Deservingness of Debtors in Post–Credit Boom Croatia

Marek Mikuš



Afterword: Differentiating Deservingness

James G. Carrier



Index